Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams Film Screening TONIGHT in London

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams
Roxy Bar And Screen
128-132 Borough High Street (Southwark)
London, UK

Wednesday, 18th December at 8:00pm

£4.00 cover charge. Free to members.

You don't have to be a member to come on any night or to come to a screening, but if you want to reserve a sofa / table for a film screening you need to be a member otherwise seats are on a first-come first-served basis.  We recommend arriving between 7pm and 7:30pm depending on the film to get a good seat.

Roxy Bar and Screen

Buy In Your Dreams on DVD:
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Stevie Nicks | Dave Grohl track "You Can't Fix This" from Sound City in Oscar contention

Oscars: Academy Releases List of 75 Original Songs in Contention
Hollywood Reporter


Seventy-five songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2013 are in contention for nominations in the original song category for the 86th Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed on the Hollywood Reporter website.  Two of the contenders include two songs from the Sound City Real to Reel documentary "You Can't Fix This" and "Cut Me Some Slack" produced and directed by Dave Grohl.  How awesome is that!!  Of course it's a long shot, but to even be considered is pretty awesome!
 
"You Can't Fix This" from Sound City
  
Sound City Players
Stevie Nicks
Dave Grohl
Taylor Hawkins
Rami Jaffee



"Cut Me Some Slack" from Sound City
Sound City Players
Paul McCartney
Dave Grohl
Krist Novoselic
Pat Smear

To be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credits.

Oscar nominations will be announced live Jan. 16 at 5:30 a.m. PT

Monday, December 16, 2013

NEW Very Best of Fleetwood Mac "Everywhere" UK TV Spot PLUS GTA 5 TV Spot w/ Stevie Nicks "I Can't Wait"

Couple of new ads running on TV... In the UK Rhino UK is taking advantage of the "Everywhere" track being used in the 3 Network Christmas Dance Pony Ad to promote "The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac" 2CD set. Check out the video below... 3 Network re-tooled their March, 2013 TV Spot sprucing it up for the holiday season adding snow and a jingle to the background track along with a Christmas tree and reindeer antlers to one of the horses.... Cute ad, it's below.  View the original ad that ran earlier in this year. Dance Pony Dance

Grand Theft Auto 5 licensed Stevie's "I Can't Wait" for the game and is featured the track on the classic rock radio station "Los Santos Rock" within the game.  According to the youtube posting, the ad runs through the holiday season to promote the newly released game.

If you can't get the kids to see/hear your music... You gotta go to where the kids are and hope it makes an impact.

Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (Three Pony TV AD) - UK
3 Network Pony Christmas Ad
GTA 5 : Xbox 360 TV Spot Grand Theft Auto V - The Official Trailer

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Stevie Nicks appears in a bevy of documentaries

Stevie's the queen of the documentary this year... She appears in Sound City Real to Reel, History of the Eagles, her own documentary In Your Dreams plus Dave Stewart: The Ringmaster General.

 


On Tuesday December 17th in Australia Dave Stewart: The Ring Master General documentary will play Australia's Foxtel - channel 132 Studio at 9:00pm.

This documentary captures Eurythmics legend Dave Stewart through the whirlwind recording process of two explosive albums and his adventures in songwriting, letting the viewer witness his eccentric but compelling methods of creativity.

All but The Ringmaster General are available at Amazon:


LISTEN: Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70's: Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood Interview Segments

This week's "Johnnie Walker's Sound of the 70's" show on BBC Radio 2 featured Interview Segments From Mick, Christine and Stevie.

He's joined in conversation by the members of Fleetwood Mac, ahead of his in-depth special "Beyond The Rumours" to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 January 1st at 5:00pm in the UK. The programme was made to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of Rumours, the album propelled them to super stardom along with legendary excess and in-fighting. The band recently toured the world with sell-out dates in the UK, Johnnie will scratch the surface of the band with some sneak previews of his full-length special.

Listen to Johnnie Walker's Sound of the 70's


During this broadcast Johnnie has a few interview clips from his upcoming special including segments with Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks.

CHRISTINE MCVIE:
At exactly the 25:39 mark Johnnie speaks about his "Beyond The Rumours" New Years Day special and has his first clip from his special with Christine McVie speaking about Stevie and Lindsey first joining the band, followed by playing "Say You Love Me"

STEVIE NICKS:
At exactly the 1:13:50 mark Johnnie speaks with Stevie about her early years moving around the U.S. up to when she landed in San Francisco and joined up with Lindsey and formed their first band Fritz. "Rhiannon" is played following the interview segment.

MICK FLEETWOOD:
At exactly the 1:39:47 mark Johnnie features a portion of his Mick Fleetwood interview. Mick speaks about being the Manager of Fleetwood Mac in the early days and how that came to be that he was managing the band. "I Don't Wanna Know" is played following Mick's segment.

Listen to this show now and for the next 7 days... And don't forget to tune in January 1st 5:00pm UK time (11:00am Central in North America) for the "Beyond The Rumours" special with more of Johnnie's interviews with Mick, Stevie, Christine and also Lindsey Buckingham.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

The Top 25 Tours of 2013 - Fleetwood Mac No.17

Published Boxscore numbers with Billboard
I've compiled
Billboard have published their Top 25 Tours of 2013.  Fleetwood Mac came in at No.17 

Fleetwood Mac played 65 shows in 2013 (67 when you include the two upcoming Las Vegas shows), 47 in North America (49 when the Las Vegas shows are included) and 18 in Europe. The below numbers are based on 45 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore between November 14, 2012 and November 12, 2013.

Boxscore numbers solely depend on the consistency and accuracy of reports from promoters, venues, agents and managers.

No. 17 FLEETWOOD MAC 
Total Gross: $61,899,473
Total Attendance: 554,548
Total Capacity: 579,480
No. of Shows: 45
No. of Sellouts: 13.

Based on the numbers above:

Average Per Show Gross: $1,375,543.
Average Per Show Attendance: 12,323
Average Per Show Capacity: 12,877

Top 25 Tours - Billboard